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Friday, February 17, 2017
Vol. 66, No. 7
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Ex town aide tied to alleged Terry front
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Helped create corp. ID’d in indictment, denies role in alleged hiding of income BY N O A H M A N S K A R Jonathan P. Fielding, a Town of North Hempstead zoning oďŹƒcial until this week, helped Gerard Terry, an indicted Democratic political operative, create a company that Terry allegedly used as a front to hide income from the Internal Revenue Service, documents show. Fielding, who was secretary to the Board of Zoning Appeals, no longer worked for the town as of Tuesday, a town spokeswoman said. He indicated that he had been forced out. Fielding’s departure coincided with questions posed by Blank Slate Media to the town about his relationship to Terry’s company. It also comes two weeks after Terry, the former North Hempstead Democratic Committee chairman who worked as the zoning board’s attorney, was arrested on federal tax evasion charges for allegedly failing to pay nearly $1 million in income taxes.
Fielding in 2010 ďŹ led documents to incorporate a company, Neville Warwick LLC, that a federal indictment says Terry used to hide income from IRS tax collectors. State corporation records list Fielding as the recipient of correspondence for the company and list as its address a Mineola law oďŹƒce where he has practiced. But Fielding’s role did not extend beyond preparing documents to organize the company, and he did not know for what purpose it would be used, he said in an interview. “I’ve never seen a bank statement or any other corporate minutes or anything else, or any other documents related to the LLC, since that organization seven years ago,â€? Fielding said. Terry and Fielding have a professional relationship that goes back to at least September 2008, when they served as Manorhaven’s village attorney and deputy village attorney, respectively. Continued on Page 51
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE VISCARDI CENTER
Scott Mayfield, Calvin de Haan, Shane Prince and Anthony Beauvillier of the New York Islanders stepped off the ice for the afternoon to visit the Albertson-based Viscardi School and play wheelchair hockey against students — many of whom have severe physical disabilities. Viscardi came out winners with a final score of 4-3.
Trustees, residents spar over security in E. Williston BY N O A H MANSKAR East Williston oďŹƒcials and village residents continue to disagree over security and communication, leading to a
public sparring match at Monday’s Board of Trustees meeting. The village did not publish details of a Feb. 5 incident in which a man snuck into a family’s backyard, leading two resi-
dents to charge that oďŹƒcials kept the public in the dark. Mayor David Tanner said village oďŹƒcials did not have veriďŹ able information from Nassau County police that they Continued on Page 52
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